[…]n't know what Alan thinks, I think he's grinning at me, but I don't know what Alan thinks about this but he, he was very much he was very much a martinet you know.Alan Lawson  33:22 He was.Dallas Bower  33:23 He was very much a martinet. And I mean, he had these aw[…]
[…]now piece of music of measures if you hit them on the head. So recently a It's come to my mind as a result, probably because of the COVID issues that Martin you know, the the royalties went down quite considerably. And really to try and start to build it up again at the age that I am. And I do have […]
[…]CT INTERVIEW with DAVID ELSTEIN Conducted on Friday 24th March 2017 at David’s home in Putney Camera Operator: Nick GilbeyInterviewer: Martin Spence  INTERVIEW SUMMARY   00.00 –             […]
[…]y went to Decca, (Time 03:10) Brian Epstein took them to Decca, to there, there, and the most unsuccessful record label was Parlophone, run by George Martin. And George Martin had a couple of minor hits with Matt Munro, and that was about it, and a couple of funny things with Peter Sellers, ri[…]
[…] have a conversation with Harry Fowler without mentioning Kenny Lynch.HF: Well, we were for three years as partners on a show we nicked off Rowan and Martin really: Rowan and Martin were an American pair who simply walked on the stage, middle of the stage and did a brief ordinary chat on it? [adopts[…]
[…]act to do some records for the parlor phone record label, which was one of the EMR group. And there was a young assistant manager there called George Martin, who was assistant to Oscar price, and George gave Dick James his contract. And Dick James said, Well, I'd like this young guy, Ronald Goodwin,[…]
[…]il the war happened.There was a marvellous place in the West End it had been Gatti’s old restaurant, just off The Strand or between The Strand and St Martin’s Lane which have been endowed by Lord Nuffield to be the Nuffield Forces Centre, and it was run by a fabulous woman called Mary Cook, who love[…]
[…] Thanks. Jeff was with can we fix and he was recommended to me by Jim Smith who serviced animation equipment and holds a title artist that Jeff had done&nb[…]
[…]basically, the senior newsreel man, and Alf Tunwell, they worked with sound cameras - their soundman being respectively Derek Stiles with Paul Wyand, Martin Gray, I think with Jack Cotter, and Pat Wyand with Alf Tunwell.Alan Lawson: And, the, err, during the War, I did a bit of, er, what shall I say[…]
[…]uth as to why he left the unit. But left he did halfway through the picture, and he and his place was taken by the second unit director called Andrew Martin, who is, I think, now just about dead, or he may not be a Hollywood director of considerable second unit repute who did things like Ben Hur and[…]
